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kennedy he told ted kennedy that he must release his tax returns because obviously he had something to hide. and if he wouldn't release his taxes, he must be hiding something and then of course, senator kennedy wouldn't release his. mitt romney would not release his as well. so i challenged him frankly because i felt that understanding his background at bain company -- his investment background but also because we had just completed a challenge the democratic party had just completed a challenge of his residency whether or not he actually was a resident of massachusetts. >> jennifer: i want to talk to you about that. >> still unanswered. >> jennifer: i want to talk to you about that in one second. let me finish on the tax return thing. >> sure. >> jennifer: obviously he didn't release his tax returns. what do you -- what do you surmise given your history with him and your in-depth knowledge of his finances and everything. what do you think he has to hide? do you think it is possible he wasn't even paying taxes? >> well, you know, again, it is sort of then and now. back then, what i
kennedy he told ted kennedy that he must release his tax returns because obviously he had something to hide. and if he wouldn't release his taxes, he must be hiding something and then of course, senator kennedy wouldn't release his. mitt romney would not release his as well. so i challenged him frankly because i felt that understanding his background at bain company -- his investment background but also because we had just completed a challenge the democratic party had just completed a...
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and it worked for ted kennedy when mitt romney challenged him for the senate seat. >> eliot: that was a very different place. >> what works there doesn't work any place else. >> this is clearly romney's achilles' heel. you remember those ads that gingrich was running, they were extremely powerful. it looked like it was made by the afl/cio back in the 30s. they were devastating especially in the state of the economy and anybody could see this coming from a mile away. >> eliot: we're living in a couple of days where the focus has been healthcare and mitt romney is stuck with mcconnell and boehner on one side and barack obama and he said get me out of this miss. he's a smart guy. friday jobs come out. can president obama survive a sequence of months with sub 100,000 private sector jobs created. >> it looks bad and it will get worse. europe will drag the rest of us off that cliff if we're not careful, and maybe there's nothing we can do about it. it will get worse. the republicans have essentially nominateed a spectacularly weak candidate. the only argument he can give us is hey i come fr
and it worked for ted kennedy when mitt romney challenged him for the senate seat. >> eliot: that was a very different place. >> what works there doesn't work any place else. >> this is clearly romney's achilles' heel. you remember those ads that gingrich was running, they were extremely powerful. it looked like it was made by the afl/cio back in the 30s. they were devastating especially in the state of the economy and anybody could see this coming from a mile away. >>...
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>> those tr the ads ted kennedy used against mitt romney in 1994. specifically the folks from indiana, they had a whole series of ads like the ones for indiana, highlighting what mitt romney's bain capital did to the people who worked at the companies that romney and bain personally got rich off of. ted kennedy devastated mitt romney in 1994 in that senate race in those ads. so ted kennedy went back to the senate. mitt romney went back to bain. and he did a stint at the salt lake city olympics. when he decided he wanted to run again for public office, mr. romney man in 2002 for massachusetts governor. he ran against shannon o'brien. and shannon o'brien, no surprise, decided to run by upstating the same attacks that were so devastating against romney eight years earlier in the ted kennedy senate race. instead of the indiana paper mill that ted kennedy used in the ads against mr. romney in 1994, eight years later in 2002, shannon o'brien decided to use the gst steel mill experience against mr. romney. gfc still steel mill was a mill in operation since
>> those tr the ads ted kennedy used against mitt romney in 1994. specifically the folks from indiana, they had a whole series of ads like the ones for indiana, highlighting what mitt romney's bain capital did to the people who worked at the companies that romney and bain personally got rich off of. ted kennedy devastated mitt romney in 1994 in that senate race in those ads. so ted kennedy went back to the senate. mitt romney went back to bain. and he did a stint at the salt lake city...
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. >> well, nobody except perhaps the late great senator ted kennedy fought harder and longer for universal healthcare than you have, senator tom harkin as chair of the health labor and pensions committee. there was another victory. you were there thursday in front of the supreme court when that % decision came down. now, we know you were happy with it but you have got to admit you were as surprised as the rest of us? >> truth be told, you bet i was. >> pleasantly surprised. >> right. >> but surprised, and i was hoping, well action we can just move forward but again, it seems like again i just have to say this republican tea party they will stop a lot nothing, nothing to protect the insurance companies and to defeat our healthcare reform. now, i see they are outgoing after justice roberts. i heater stories they changed his mind at the last minute. well, you know, maybe he had a pang of conscience. you know maybe he realized that this was the right direction to go in. but i see now the republican team, they are going to go after him. >> right. but this is, and also we were talking about this
. >> well, nobody except perhaps the late great senator ted kennedy fought harder and longer for universal healthcare than you have, senator tom harkin as chair of the health labor and pensions committee. there was another victory. you were there thursday in front of the supreme court when that % decision came down. now, we know you were happy with it but you have got to admit you were as surprised as the rest of us? >> truth be told, you bet i was. >> pleasantly surprised....
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ted kennedy was not running. he was not an announced declared candidate in the 1972 election. the president wanted to siphon off votes from ed muskie, senator muskie of maine who was considered to be the front-runner. so the president orders the set up of a fake write-in operation which the white house will pay for. >> there is something beyond the financial. >> should something be done to finance? >> why not. why not at least finance a little kennedy write-in. >> yeah. put this down. i would say a postcard mailing to all democrats in the new hampshire to write in for ted kennedy. the man you could elect. that's the way you get hit. >> so here you get a sense to the extent to which the white house was involved in illegal campaign activities. the fact that the hunt and liddy cuban emigre team that first makes its appearance on this timeline wall in 1971 has reappeared in the story of these illegal activities. well, that sets you up for the break-in and the consequence of the break-in. the hunt and liddy team get a $250,000 budget to engage in surreptitious enter and bugging and
ted kennedy was not running. he was not an announced declared candidate in the 1972 election. the president wanted to siphon off votes from ed muskie, senator muskie of maine who was considered to be the front-runner. so the president orders the set up of a fake write-in operation which the white house will pay for. >> there is something beyond the financial. >> should something be done to finance? >> why not. why not at least finance a little kennedy write-in. >> yeah....
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it seems to me very accurate to say that no treasure that has been challenged seriously since ted kennedy challenged to be toward our right i do want to bring in one more thing the publisher of the of this but there publisher is conservative so is it fair to say that you believe in the conservative. the simple answer that question is yes all right there we go straight up answer so did i mean did you get funding from being a romney campaign or from a romney super pac by chad i wish i had gotten the funding from all these places unfortunately know. i'm a. writer of books and the case really freelance magazine articles and i know and funds the ever. my wife used to help me but now she's retired so i'm i'm funding myself and my dog and my wife and that's that's where the funds come right they go i'm sure they're very appreciative it may be one last thing some of the things that you disclose in the box not only beslan but some of your other books in the past very shocking or what's maybe some of the most surprising things there are shocking things that that you reveal i think in the amateur wh
it seems to me very accurate to say that no treasure that has been challenged seriously since ted kennedy challenged to be toward our right i do want to bring in one more thing the publisher of the of this but there publisher is conservative so is it fair to say that you believe in the conservative. the simple answer that question is yes all right there we go straight up answer so did i mean did you get funding from being a romney campaign or from a romney super pac by chad i wish i had gotten...
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and it's he that is insistent about getting ted kennedy's tax returns, about saying let's get my old secret service agent from when i was vice president, put him in ted kennedy's secret service detail, get him to report back and maybe we'll catch the son of a bitch in a compromising position and ruin him so he can't run in '76. that's what this was about. that's what's so brazen and horrifying. >> how important was deep throat? >> deep throat helped us a lot. he was confirming -- >> confirming is the word? >> basically. like the october story, it started out as carl had found three people who were recruited to do this sabotage and spying and none of them had done it. i went to meet with mark feld and it's one of the times where he said, no, this is much bigger. and that's when he said there are 50 who did this. and that's been a number that was disputed for a long time. all you have to do is read the senate watergate committee and their report. and it's astonishing. they had 22 people that the chief saboteur paid. they had spies named ruby one, ruby two, sedan chair one, sedan chair
and it's he that is insistent about getting ted kennedy's tax returns, about saying let's get my old secret service agent from when i was vice president, put him in ted kennedy's secret service detail, get him to report back and maybe we'll catch the son of a bitch in a compromising position and ruin him so he can't run in '76. that's what this was about. that's what's so brazen and horrifying. >> how important was deep throat? >> deep throat helped us a lot. he was confirming --...
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kennedy. launched a serious challenge president. carter. mr buchanan never succeeded in doing anything near that it's so it's it's so. it seems to me very accurate to say that no president has been challenged seriously since kennedy channel and should be toward iraq i do want to bring up one more thing the publisher of this fuck your publisher is conservative so is it fair to say that you leave in a conservative. the simple answer that question is yes. there we go straight up answer so did i mean did you get funding for the romney campaign or from a romney super pac by tad high certainly i wish i had gotten the funding from all these places unfortunately know i'm a. writer of books and it occasionally freelance magazine articles and i know when funds be ever. my wife used to help me but now she's retired so i'm i'm funding myself and then my dog and my wife and that's that's where the funds come from they share they're very appreciative that they have it one last they some of the things that y
kennedy. launched a serious challenge president. carter. mr buchanan never succeeded in doing anything near that it's so it's it's so. it seems to me very accurate to say that no president has been challenged seriously since kennedy channel and should be toward iraq i do want to bring up one more thing the publisher of this fuck your publisher is conservative so is it fair to say that you leave in a conservative. the simple answer that question is yes. there we go straight up answer so did i...
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i think in the end why ted kennedy, we can't as canal, but white ted kennedy picked david nasaw is that he saw a model for the arc of his father's life, someone who made a great fortune relatively early and then spent the rest of his life figuring out ways to do good with it or to do things with. and, of course, in the case of joseph kennedy, one of the most faithful things he did was out making some president. that piece of the story, how joseph kennedy was involved in his son, it's fascinating and their arsenal news breaks in this book. >> they're is another book coming out as well. >> yes. an autobiography, a memoir, stagecraft. did is -- for a man who has such a reputation as a diplomat it is a delightfully unvarnished. no secret that he had some real issues with the bush administration over iraq and other matters. no secret that he had issues with the state of israel over the lebanon invasion. in essence, what is poignant about this boat is that there is a lot in it about what he tried and failed to do, what the limitations, but what is really quite moving and not really expected i
i think in the end why ted kennedy, we can't as canal, but white ted kennedy picked david nasaw is that he saw a model for the arc of his father's life, someone who made a great fortune relatively early and then spent the rest of his life figuring out ways to do good with it or to do things with. and, of course, in the case of joseph kennedy, one of the most faithful things he did was out making some president. that piece of the story, how joseph kennedy was involved in his son, it's...
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joining me now is democratic strategist bob shrum who ran ted kennedy's campaign against romney in 1994. bob, let me start with you. senator reid said he didn't know if this claim about romney's taxes was true. what's your take on the fact he was willing to put this into play at all? >> well, let me put this in context. romney is returning from the worst foreign trip of any presidential candidate since his father went to vietnam and came home and said he had been brainwashed. as i wrote in my column in the daily beast today he must have been sitting in that stadium saying, oh, to be in ohio now that the olympics are here. well, he's going to be back in ohio and will face these questions. and i think harry reid went out there and said what a lot of us are thinking and some of us have already said if you have been in a presidential campaign, you want to release those returns. you sit down and you look at them and the only reason you wouldn't release them is if there's something profoundly embarrassing in there. i think this is going to dog romney all the way through the fall. he's going t
joining me now is democratic strategist bob shrum who ran ted kennedy's campaign against romney in 1994. bob, let me start with you. senator reid said he didn't know if this claim about romney's taxes was true. what's your take on the fact he was willing to put this into play at all? >> well, let me put this in context. romney is returning from the worst foreign trip of any presidential candidate since his father went to vietnam and came home and said he had been brainwashed. as i wrote...
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team obama put this out for romney's race against ted kennedy in 1994 when romney charged that kennedy was hiding behind his blind trust. >> the blind trust is an age old ruse, if you will, which is to say you can tell the blind trust what it can and cannot do. you give the blind trust rules. >> second that romney was active in bain capital after he was effectively gone. the obama campaign is just trying to change the subject. >> the president's campaign has been, i think, outrageous in making the kind of charges they have. i think the kinds of attacks are beneath the dignity of the presidency. the president needs to rein in his campaign and talk about the real issues that the people care about. >> the third prong is to disqualifyify romney by using the refusal to release more tax returns as a way of saying that the romney campaign and romney is out of touch. romney says voters have seen all they need. >> we're putting out what is required plus more that is not required. those are the two years that people are going to have and that's all that is necessary for people to understand some
team obama put this out for romney's race against ted kennedy in 1994 when romney charged that kennedy was hiding behind his blind trust. >> the blind trust is an age old ruse, if you will, which is to say you can tell the blind trust what it can and cannot do. you give the blind trust rules. >> second that romney was active in bain capital after he was effectively gone. the obama campaign is just trying to change the subject. >> the president's campaign has been, i think,...
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if it weren't for ted kennedy being a progressive in massachusetts, i've got to do that too! he is a me, too candidate. bill clinton was a success, i've got to be like bill clinton. this is a man without a rudder. he's got no compass. so whether or not he knows the fact, whether or not he has an ideological side to him is irrelevant, because he can be pushed any which way you like, and that's what conservatives, if you read between the lines, and sometimes they're saying it explicitly, that's what they like about him. all you've got to do is tell him it's the winning way and he'll print up your slogan. >> just for a comparison, i want to look at some video where we know he's actually telling the truth. this is from 1994 -- >> we had to go back to '94 to get a piece -- >> well, this is a piece where we know he's telling the truth and we can compare the way that guy talks about and the one pretending to be bill clinton. in 1994, he's talking about blind trusts. he's telling the truth. >> a blind trust is an age-old ruse, which is to say, you can always tell the blind trust what
if it weren't for ted kennedy being a progressive in massachusetts, i've got to do that too! he is a me, too candidate. bill clinton was a success, i've got to be like bill clinton. this is a man without a rudder. he's got no compass. so whether or not he knows the fact, whether or not he has an ideological side to him is irrelevant, because he can be pushed any which way you like, and that's what conservatives, if you read between the lines, and sometimes they're saying it explicitly, that's...
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and comedian maria alexander ted kennedy thanks for coming back. ari let's start with this one story we did it originally what happened you know we've seen a lot of people make videos that don't touch my junk videos of the t.s.a. and then there is the one guy that just got completely naked which i love i told her i totally respect that yeah but then he actually took it to court and there's an update on that to look. really guy went to the airport and he was told decided to go through the metal detector and had a pat down he said you know what enough is enough you want to make a political statement he was tired of the security it goes too far as you know one of oh boy did yes he got booked. for attempted political speech this is john brennan forty nine years old he was charged with charges though have been dropped. so basically what happened. the judge ruled that it's ok because he was he had indecent exposure charges and the judge said. you can do it that's your freedom of expression i love this judge i love that we have a glimmer of hope came till
and comedian maria alexander ted kennedy thanks for coming back. ari let's start with this one story we did it originally what happened you know we've seen a lot of people make videos that don't touch my junk videos of the t.s.a. and then there is the one guy that just got completely naked which i love i told her i totally respect that yeah but then he actually took it to court and there's an update on that to look. really guy went to the airport and he was told decided to go through the metal...
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returns and said ted kennedy should be the one releasing more tax returns as well. nonetheless, this is not the issue he wants to be talking right now which is the very reason his campaign have a conference call with us earlier today attacking the president for this crony capitalism as we were talking about as well. >> do you have any indication from them, you were on that conference call with them, you have been talking to them, any indication they are going to change their mind because of some republican pressure as well, and release any more of the tax returns? >> it doesn't sound like it. doesn't sound like they will release any more tax returns and a lot of prominent conservatives have said if you're not going to do it, you have to not do it at all but if you do it, do it now and get it over with. the conversation you heard there is it will be done in a couple of days. the question they have to answer for themselves is whether or not they know it would be done in a couple days and what could be found in those tax returns going forward. but what the conversation
returns and said ted kennedy should be the one releasing more tax returns as well. nonetheless, this is not the issue he wants to be talking right now which is the very reason his campaign have a conference call with us earlier today attacking the president for this crony capitalism as we were talking about as well. >> do you have any indication from them, you were on that conference call with them, you have been talking to them, any indication they are going to change their mind because...
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is that enough to earn him ted kennedy's seat? we'll let you decide. but we had each other and he had purina cat chow indoor. he absolutely loved it. and i knew he was getting everything he needed to stay healthy indoors. and after a couple of weeks, i knew we were finally home! [ female announcer ] purina cat chow indoor. always there for you. >>> the who surprised everyone when he replaced ted kennedy in massachusetts wants to surprise everybody again. scott brown is a republican in a largely democratic state. he is running for his first full term against one of his state's democratic icons. here's dana bash. >> this is the senator from massachusetts, scott brown. >> reporter: main street in hyannis, cape cod with senator scott brown. the breezy, every man persona that got the massachusetts republican elected in an upset two years ago still on display. >> thank you. >> absolutely. thank you. >> keep your eyes on the road will you? >> reporter: brown is keenl aware that recapturing the senate seat held by democrat ted kennedy for nearly half a century
is that enough to earn him ted kennedy's seat? we'll let you decide. but we had each other and he had purina cat chow indoor. he absolutely loved it. and i knew he was getting everything he needed to stay healthy indoors. and after a couple of weeks, i knew we were finally home! [ female announcer ] purina cat chow indoor. always there for you. >>> the who surprised everyone when he replaced ted kennedy in massachusetts wants to surprise everybody again. scott brown is a republican in...
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on abortion than ted kennedy. there's a pattern here. i thought it was smart to go. i don't think he was playing to get african-american votes. he's not going to get any. he was playing for the independent white suburbanites who don't like voting for someone who doesn't care about black people. >> right. >> and so i think it was smart to go. i didn't think it was a very good speech. i think the appearance was beneficial for him. >> bush figured out in 2000 and 2004, i think george w. bush in 2000, would -- early in the campaign it seems to me, i remember him going to one inner city stop after another inner city stop and we were all scratching our heads why are they doing it, they weren't doing it to win votes in the inner city, they were doing it to win votes in the philadelphia suburbs. >> because in the philadelphia suburbs they like a compassionate conservative which mitt romney has proved he's not this campaign. >> has he proven that? >> those primaries, i -- i think did it. but on the theory that 90% of life
on abortion than ted kennedy. there's a pattern here. i thought it was smart to go. i don't think he was playing to get african-american votes. he's not going to get any. he was playing for the independent white suburbanites who don't like voting for someone who doesn't care about black people. >> right. >> and so i think it was smart to go. i didn't think it was a very good speech. i think the appearance was beneficial for him. >> bush figured out in 2000 and 2004, i think...
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he did it with ted kennedy. rick santorum was right then and is right now. there's no one else with the baggage than mitt romney on this issue. he wants to get this swept off the front pages as soon as possible. i don't think the campaign anticipated that there would be conservative blowback to his interview. they probably thought when he went out there that that would settle the matter and it would move on. worried about handling from the get go. they said he looks like a flip-flopper and shouldn't have gone there in the first place. it goes to show he's -- if you get him on script, if you're talking about the economy he's in a good place. if you're talking about anything else, he finds it very difficult to deal with the narrative. >> yeah. the god father, i suppose. he's marlon brando to i suppose barack obama's michael corleon. just don't be fredo. i can do things too. romney was asked if his massachusetts health care penalty was also a tax. here's what he said. >> actually the chief justice made it clear that at the state level, states have the power to
he did it with ted kennedy. rick santorum was right then and is right now. there's no one else with the baggage than mitt romney on this issue. he wants to get this swept off the front pages as soon as possible. i don't think the campaign anticipated that there would be conservative blowback to his interview. they probably thought when he went out there that that would settle the matter and it would move on. worried about handling from the get go. they said he looks like a flip-flopper and...
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this is a man who called ted kennedy's blind trust the age old roos in 1994. have the laws about blind trust changed? >> no. it hasn't and his knowledge of not just his blind trust, but all of his other financial activities, david had a tremendous story last week about a waste disposal company that he was involved in that dealt with aborted fetuses. the list of his personal finances and the stories about it just goes on and on an on. i think david is is right. this is the last thing he wants to talk about, but the story keeps come back and as far as this point about social liberalism, he had a terrible, he thought he could win the debate on immigration. he lost that debate. he thought he could win the debate on health care and that didn't turn out so well. he is running away from this debate on taxes not just because of his personal financial situation, not just because the tax proposal that obama made would affect less than 3% of businesses, but because taxes in this country are at 15% of the economy. it's the lowest in 50 years, so he really has no place to
this is a man who called ted kennedy's blind trust the age old roos in 1994. have the laws about blind trust changed? >> no. it hasn't and his knowledge of not just his blind trust, but all of his other financial activities, david had a tremendous story last week about a waste disposal company that he was involved in that dealt with aborted fetuses. the list of his personal finances and the stories about it just goes on and on an on. i think david is is right. this is the last thing he...
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. >> the senator ted kennedy giving up his dream of running for president in 1980 after holding on until the last possible moment. in that speech, using his defeat to begin to create a new legacy. it's a classic example of making lemonade out of political lemons. and one state right now where the republican party has been given a bunch of lemons, they're not only making lemonade, they're refusing to acknowledge their lost and nobody is quite sure how to handle that. it's a weird situation, under the radar thus far, but i think it's about to blossom into a really big deal. we've got details ahead. i stepped on the machine, and it showed me the pressure points on my feet and exactly where i needed more support. then, i got my number. my tired, achy feet affected my whole life. until i found my number. i tried the free dr. scholl's foot mapping center. in two minutes, i got my foot map and custom number. i'm a 440. that matched up to the dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic inserts with the right support and cushioning i need. i am a believer. i'm a believer! i'm a believer. go to drscholls.com
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ted kennedy was very wealthy, but you never got the impression that kennedy didn't understand how other people lived. and romney, you get the impression he doesn't understand. no that he doesn't care, i don't think he doesn't care. i just think he hasn't really been around people like that. >> is this a wind surfing moment? >> i don't think it's quite a wind surfing moment. i think it was worse for kerry than potentially the jet ski, this diseet innocent is for romney. it's only bad if it comes at a time when it reenforces a source of negative impression that may be forming. this is the moment at which mitt romney is being defined in the minds of many voters. and i think this helps that definition in what for the romney campaign is not a good way. >> i think a jet ski is much more every man. kenny powers has a jet ski. hopefully, you don't know who he is. robert rice had an article on romney's wealth. here's what he wrote. we've entered a guilded age in which mitt romney is a perfect reflection. romney looks and acts the part perfectly. four years ago he paid $12 million for his fourth
ted kennedy was very wealthy, but you never got the impression that kennedy didn't understand how other people lived. and romney, you get the impression he doesn't understand. no that he doesn't care, i don't think he doesn't care. i just think he hasn't really been around people like that. >> is this a wind surfing moment? >> i don't think it's quite a wind surfing moment. i think it was worse for kerry than potentially the jet ski, this diseet innocent is for romney. it's only bad...
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that was the late, great senator ted kennedy fighting for an increase in the minimum wage five years ago. the battle was won in 2009. it was increased from $5.25 an hour to $7.25 an hour. now there's a new fight. $7.25 an hour can't support our families. do the math. for a year in the minimum wage amounts to only $15,000 a year. that's almost $8,000 below the federal poverty line for a family of four. workers in america desperately need a raise in the struggling economy. people who work hard should be able to live off their wages and support their families. republicans are generally opposed to raising the minimum wage. take a look at what mitt romney said recently. >> certainly, the level of inflation is something you should look at and you should identify what's the right way to keep americans -- >> minimal inflation so far. >> right now, there's probably not a need to raise the minimum wage. >> there you have it, a tremendous difference between the way the republicans and the democrats look at fairness. the republican unwillingness to help working men and women rains through our so
that was the late, great senator ted kennedy fighting for an increase in the minimum wage five years ago. the battle was won in 2009. it was increased from $5.25 an hour to $7.25 an hour. now there's a new fight. $7.25 an hour can't support our families. do the math. for a year in the minimum wage amounts to only $15,000 a year. that's almost $8,000 below the federal poverty line for a family of four. workers in america desperately need a raise in the struggling economy. people who work hard...
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kennedy, he insisted that ted kennedy release his -- calling for it. he felt it was necessary. they ended up both not releasing taxes, partly because the wealth of both men, right? isn't that part of the conversation? i don't think anybody thinks he didn't pay his taxes in full. >> soledad, the question is why does this administration, why does president obama run from his record? why is he unwilling. >> that's a different question. a question on the gop side. >> that is the question that americans are asking, how do we get our economy moving and again, i really don't think people -- i do not hear questions about bain or governor romney's tax returns. i hear questions about senator johnson, how, please get govern regulators off our backs. how can we borrow money? what is with keeping the smaller banks making loans to businesses they've been making loans to for 25 years? those are the types of questions as i talk to real americans, nothing about bain and taxpayers, and that's the true. >> you're calling people on "meet the press" not real americans, i'l
kennedy, he insisted that ted kennedy release his -- calling for it. he felt it was necessary. they ended up both not releasing taxes, partly because the wealth of both men, right? isn't that part of the conversation? i don't think anybody thinks he didn't pay his taxes in full. >> soledad, the question is why does this administration, why does president obama run from his record? why is he unwilling. >> that's a different question. a question on the gop side. >> that is the...
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mitt romney did it back in 1994 when ted kennedy was his opponent. if it fits your argument, you use it. >> it may be completely tame, but the more you hear about it people get worked up because people act like hiding something. >> that's right. and the obama campaign has done a masterful job. and instead of job numbers we talk about bain and what year mitt romney changed jobs and now we are talking about tax returns and how many years he will end up releasing. romney made it clear it's only two years. he has a couple problems because of the number of years other candidates have and his father did twelve years. >> and how do we know this is the staying party, this whole issue? are we talking about this now and is president obama talking about it now in his campaign because there is no other driving issue, or is this really a serious election year issue? >> the romney campaign's response to this suckets that they think this is going to go away. kind of a rope strategy. tie up the other guy, throw punches but we will stand back and wait it to play out.
mitt romney did it back in 1994 when ted kennedy was his opponent. if it fits your argument, you use it. >> it may be completely tame, but the more you hear about it people get worked up because people act like hiding something. >> that's right. and the obama campaign has done a masterful job. and instead of job numbers we talk about bain and what year mitt romney changed jobs and now we are talking about tax returns and how many years he will end up releasing. romney made it clear...
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it's like the bain story, which he was first attacked on bain in 1994 in the race with ted kennedy, didn't have the answers then, still doesn't have them. the ann romney thing is fascinating. first of all, it's a step up, at least he's putting ann romney out in front. he was earlier in the week hiding behind theresa heinz cary. you may recall he was not being held to the same standard she was when she was not running for president in 2004. but also, just what she said now, she said he's a good man, he gives 10% of his income or whatever -- zero, maybe of zero, but whatever to the church. didn't mention theame of the church, which is the moore mom church. the mormon church, that's just in one snippet. they keep making it worst. they have no answers, and they look bad, and it's also a metaphor, i think, or become a approximaty for all the secrecy about romney, about bain, about his governorship of massachusetts where the hard drives roll a race, his staff was leaving. >> they bought them and took them with them. >> they could afford to buy them. all those sort of language they use, like in 2
it's like the bain story, which he was first attacked on bain in 1994 in the race with ted kennedy, didn't have the answers then, still doesn't have them. the ann romney thing is fascinating. first of all, it's a step up, at least he's putting ann romney out in front. he was earlier in the week hiding behind theresa heinz cary. you may recall he was not being held to the same standard she was when she was not running for president in 2004. but also, just what she said now, she said he's a good...
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something similar to what he had done when he went to run against is that right ted kennedy in a previous position. he decided since he was going to hopefully return to bain capital, he said i'm not going to return to my part time or full time status. instead, i'm going to retroactively elect to not come back. this is really a slight of hand the president and his campaign are running as if governor romney were show in charge of bain. "the boston globe" who wrote a book on governor romney said he left in february 1999, i think this is more of a political statement. >> the slight of hand is not obama's, but it is romney's because if you retire, you retire. you put the date out there. you cease to be paid, but when you retroactively retire, that means you extend beyond the date and you, you've got some gray area here. don't you understand why the rest of us find that a bit fudging of the facts? >> governor romney was the one shareholder as we know, but of course, he did not have any obligation obviously of running the company. that's a huge distinction. your name may not be on the filings as
something similar to what he had done when he went to run against is that right ted kennedy in a previous position. he decided since he was going to hopefully return to bain capital, he said i'm not going to return to my part time or full time status. instead, i'm going to retroactively elect to not come back. this is really a slight of hand the president and his campaign are running as if governor romney were show in charge of bain. "the boston globe" who wrote a book on governor...
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now we're seeing this clip from 1994 when he was a senate candidate running against ted kennedy. he called it a blind rouse. >> the blind trust is an age-old rouse. you can tell the blind trust what it can and cannot do. >> should he be held to that? >> it is a difficult situation where you have words that can be used against you. i think this is probably one area that maybe romney does have to come forward and show there is full transparency. allowing this election to become a back and forth, guerella w warfare is what he has to get back to. he has to show people how everybody is successful in this country. not getting an argument about who is paying how much in taxes. >> i have to say that there is this perception about this campaign about how nasty it's become and the obama camp says the romney campaign has officially gone off the deep end. on the other hand, chris, john mccain, when he was responding to the controversy yesterday about his comments says basically we're going to gutter politics. they, the obama camp, should be ashamed. is there a risk in this? >> there is a ris
now we're seeing this clip from 1994 when he was a senate candidate running against ted kennedy. he called it a blind rouse. >> the blind trust is an age-old rouse. you can tell the blind trust what it can and cannot do. >> should he be held to that? >> it is a difficult situation where you have words that can be used against you. i think this is probably one area that maybe romney does have to come forward and show there is full transparency. allowing this election to become...